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According to the Zap2it.com, stage and screen star Martin Short is set to guest star in the new season of CBS' 'How IMet Your Mother.' Short will play Jason Segal's new boss, replacing Dave Foley.

The Carlyle Hotel (Erich Steinbock, Managing Director) has announced the 2011 fall season of performers at the legendary Café Carlyle - the 'favorite of all New York nightspots,' says Liz Smith - another New York legend.

According to the Chicago Tribune, the Goodman Theatre production of David Henry Hwang's Chinglish will arrive on Broadway this fall. The show will likely run at a Shubert theatre and specific dates have not yet been announced.

The Broadway at Birdland concert series is happy to announce that songwriters Michael Kooman and Chris Dimond, who won the 2010 Jonathan Larson Grant, will be presenting 'Out Of Our Heads: The Music of Kooman & Dimond' on Monday, July 18 at 7pm.

According to EW.com, stage veteran America Ferrera married movie director Ryan Piers Williams on June 27. The couple met at the University of Southern California where they both atteded college.

Alicia Keys will give a surprise concert tonight, June 28 at Joe's Pub at 8 PM. This news come soon after he announcement that she will producing the upcoming Broadway production of STICK FLY. Tickets to the concert are $40 and can be purchased at the Joe's Pub box office on Lafayette Street.

Following a heartfelt and entertaining memorial for Sidney Lumet at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall with speakers and performers including Lauren Bacall, Walter Bernstein, Bobby Cannavale, Glenn Close, Jonathan Demme, James Gandolfini, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jenny Lumet, David Mamet, Phylilis Newman and Christopher Walken among others, the Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the details today for a retrospective of the admired and beloved director's work, Prince of the City: Remembering Sidney Lumet which will screen at the Walter Reade Theater July 19 - 25.

At a press conference last Thursday, Angela Motta, Deputy from Councilman Eric Garcetti's office, proclaimed June 16, 2011 'Cirque du Soleil Day' in Los Angeles, in honor of Cirque du Soleil's new show IRIS, A Journey Through the World of Cinema. The show begins previews July 21 in its resident home at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. IRIS will premiere September 25.

At a press conference last Thursday, Angela Motta, Deputy from Councilman Eric Garcetti's office, proclaimed June 16, 2011 'Cirque du Soleil Day' in Los Angeles, in honor of Cirque du Soleil's new show IRIS, A Journey Through the World of Cinema. The show begins previews July 21 in its resident home at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. IRIS will premiere September 25.

Theatreworks USA (Barbara Pasternack, Artistic Dir.; Ken Arthur, Producing Dir.), the nation's leading not-for-profit professional theatre for family audiences, is pleased to announce details for the special one-night-only benefit performance and celebration of the new Latin-themed children's musical THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD, presented as the featured production of its 23rd Annual Free Summer Theatre Program.

This summer the producers of the infamous marathon London tour of Jackson's Way: The London Jacksathon! (January 2011), will pepper the festivals of Britain with new shows and past hits as well as travelling further afield.

ABC announced the following Fall premiere dates for the 2011-2012 season today. Also premierig mid-season on ABC is the Kristin Chenoweth led 'Good Christian Belles,' along with 'Cougar Town,' 'The Bachelor,' 'What Would You Do?,' 'Secret MIllionaire,' 'Wipeout,' 'Apartment 23,' 'Missing,' 'The River,' 'Scandal,' and 'Work It' All times listed are ET. THe full schedule is as follows:

MANIPULATION, a world-premiere play by Victoria E. Calderon about one woman's struggle for freedom and self-discovery, is set to open today, Tuesday, June 28 at Off-Broadway's Cherry Lane Theatre (38 Commerce Street) in Manhattan. Will Pomerantz directs.

On last night's episode of the Daily Show, THE BOOK OF MORMON star and Tony nominee Josh Gad returned as a correspondent for Sunday's NYC Gay Pride Parade. In the video, Gad chats with the LGBT community about the legalization of same-sex marriage and even planted a kiss on his BOOK OF MORMON co-star and Broadway Impact co-founder Rory O'Malley. Click below to check out the hilarious clip!

The Kleban Foundation awarded the 21st Annual Kleban Prize for the most promising musical theatre lyricist has gone to Adam Gwon and the award for the most promising musical theatre librettist has gone to Michelle Elliott. The 2011 awards were presented on June 27, 2011, in a private ceremony at ASCAP.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, David Strathairn is set to join previously announced Daniel Day-Lewis and Sally Field in the film version of 'Team of Rivals,' based on Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography of Abraham Lincoln. Steven Spielberg will direct the film titled, 'Lincoln,' featuring a screenplay by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner.

World Without End, the sequel to Ken Follett's groundbreaking masterpiece, The Pillars of the Earth, has been optioned by TANDEM COMMUNICATIONS to be made into a television series. Ridley Scott and Tony Scott's Scott Free will be producing this worldwide bestseller together with Tandem. The Pillars of the Earth writer John Pielmeier is back to adapt World Without End for a possible eight-hour series. Starz is co-funding the writing portion with Tandem and is in first position to be the U.S. home for the new project, as it is for Pillars. According to published reports, the miniseries will feature stage veterans Ben Chaplin, Peter Firth, Cynthia Nixon, and Charlotte Riley. Also set to join them are Miranda Richardson and Tom Weston-Jones.

MASTERWORKS BROADWAY, recently praised by the Wall Street Journal for its ongoing reissue campaign, continues to make good on its promise to open its vaults with three classic cast recordings previously unavailable in the CD era. The Saint of Bleecker Street (1955 Original Broadway Cast), Half-Past Wednesday (1962 Off-Broadway Cast) and Divine Hair/Mass in F (1971) will be available as downloads through all major digital service providers and as disc-on-demand, with the original cover art and liner notes, via Arkivmusic.com and Amazon.com. Also coming this summer are ten recordings available digitally for the first time utilizing the approved master tapes, including Say, Darling, and two live recordings from Noël Coward. All releases will be accompanied by new album pages and photos on MasterworksBroadway.com.

According to published reports, stage and screen star Margaret Tyzack died in her home earlier this week, on June 25. She was 79 years old.

2010 Jonathan Larson Grant Winners Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond release their new album OUT OF OUR HEADS: The Music of Kooman and Dimond on iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody and Napster today, June 28, 2011. The album features Tony Award nominees Kerry Butler (Catch Me If You Can, Rock of Ages, Xanadu, Little Shop of Horrors), Christopher Sieber (La Cage aux Folles, Shrek, Spamalot) and Patina Miller (Sister Act), as well as Broadway performers Heidi Blickenstaff (The Addams Family, [title of show], The Little Mermaid), Anderson Davis (Les Miserables), Matt Doyle (War Horse, Bye Bye Birdie, Spring Awakening), Chris Mann (Glee), Kyle Dean Massey (Next To Normal, Xanadu, Wicked), Phoebe Strole (Spring Awakening), and Natalie Weiss (Everyday Rapture).